The Book of Dragons, Opening, part 1, sentence 31

"By-and-by he began to wander."

Who acts: PAGE · What happens: begin, wander

This is a sentence of «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Opening, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (PAGE), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
2	By	by	ADP	_	3 -	case
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 began	cc
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 and	punct
6	by	by	SCONJ	_	8 began	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 began	nsubj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 wander	mark
10	wander	wander	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	8 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin in a quote	past	PAGE						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	wander in a quote	to-infinitive	PAGE not said here						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Book of Dragons» by E. Nesbit, Project Gutenberg book 23661 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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